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...mornings a week, Ray White, 92, dispatches garden wisdom and more on his Web log, Dad's Tomato Garden Journal. His favorite subject is tomatoes. But he gets downright fatherly with random thoughts on love and what matters most in life. Since launching his blog in 2003, White has tallied 61,000 visitors. "I've got friends all over the world," says the Tennessean...
Older Web surfers are catching on to the blog craze. "We're seeing more and more seniors wanting to take advantage of this new technology," says Marcie Schwarz of SeniorNet, an educational organization that helps older adults get wired. Blogs such as Cbreaux Speaks, My Mom's Blog and the Oldest Living Blogger showcase their creators' thoughts on daily events and international politics. "This is a generation that has stories to share," says Susannah Fox, associate director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. According to Fox, 4% of online adults 70 and older have created a blog...
Lorraine O'Connor, 75, blogs on Me and the Cat about her pet, President Bush and her first bikini ("I gotta tell ya, I looked really fine"). She gets 35 visitors a day. Want to start your own blog? Go to blog.com or seniornet.org Or e-mail White. "I'd be happy to help," he says...
Everything seems to happen faster in cyberspace--even a writer's rise and fall. Ben Domenech, 24, who co-founded the right-wing politiblog REDSTATE, had barely settled in last week at RED AMERICA, Washingtonpost.com's new conservative blog, when left-wing bloggers dug up some of his college writing and highlighted passages that were suspiciously similar to other journalists' work. ATRIOS and DAILY KOS flagged movie reviews that uncomfortably resembled those by writers at Salon.com as well as a postcollege film analysis by Domenech for the National Review Online that lifted unique phrasing from Steve Murray of the Atlanta...
...satisfy the Internet bloggers and others who helped energize Howard Dean?s presidential campaign and have made moveon.org a powerful force in fundraising. And those people were thrilled with Feingold's censure proposal. "I think it was a brilliant move," said Markos Moulitsas Z?niga, who runs the popular liberal blog Daily Kos. And the Senator has sought to build support online in other ways as well. Early this month, he arranged a question and answer session through his website, where anyone from across the country could ask him questions. Getting visitors to campaign websites like Feingold's (progressivepatriotsfund.com) is important...